Payoff-based learning explains the decline in cooperation in public goods games

Economic games such as the public goods game are increasingly being used to measure social behaviours in humans and non-human primates. The results of such games have been used to argue that people are pro-social, and that humans are uniquely altruistic, willingly sacrificing their own welfare in or...

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Main Authors: Burton-Chellew, M, Nax, H, West, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Royal Society 2015